How we moved from beauty to the McMansion
Wherever people have money and choice, grace gives way to ostentation.
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Elizabeth Farrelly
Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate Professor (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses’, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness’ and ‘Caro Was Here’, crime fiction for children (2014).
A good nude is far more than just a naked body
Our yearning for the imperfect may be a sign that we are growing up.
There's never been a better time to protest in the streets
I'm a bit in love with Michael Agzarian. You remember Michael, the agit-prop genius who sent the unforgettable "HOPELESS" Abbott and "FIZZA" Turnbull images to flower in our streets like snowfield poppies just when we needed them most. (There's also CLUELESS Hockey and HEARTLESS Brandis. If these images are not in your mental bouquet, google them. Agza-prop is fast becoming a genre).
Sydney's suburbs need more than just terrace houses
The great terracing of Sydney should be welcome relief for those warily attracted to urban living. But it's not quite there yet.
Home truths strike at heart of our habitat
The hope of home drives people to desperate measures. And we respond with fear.
Most of us are unsurprised by skullduggery in the church, but this is low
Most Australians are as unsurprised by skulduggery in the church as by double-dealing in government. It's almost like they expect it. Yet even that low bar has stumped the church of late.
Welcome to peak crazy, where truth is elusive
Captain Fantastic, the new Viggo Mortensen release, may be the year's best cast and scripted film. It's also the worst named.
Our trees are wiser than our leaders
Simplicity won't save us - complexity is king.
Be a good egg and make dinner for everyone
"Bad egg" was always a metaphor, taken from the kind of biological rot that provided literature with the brimstone aromas of hell. Now it's more literal. The bad egg is one whose moral content is on the nose; an egg produced with cruelty.
Politics under the influence gets ugly
You can bet your bottom dollar, whatever Dastyari was up to, others are also at the trough.
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